FishFace

Guess you agree that this isn’t something the law should be involved with. Cool chat.

The only thing I have to fuck around with like that is the setting for Windows Update itself. It’s pretty annoying but also pretty different from an AI feature (because the modification I want to make delays updates, which is less secure). Maybe you’re thinking of something specific?

Anyway, yes, if they add an AI agent that you can’t turn off without hacks, that would be bad. But given that they haven’t done that, complaining about the law (without saying what the law is lacking) is silly. What would the law say - “don’t add features to software if any user doesn’t want it?” there is no way to make what the commenter above said make sense.

But the Steam Machine is also likely to be positioned as a console competitor on some level, just like the Steam Deck - sure the Deck is just a PC in a handheld form factor, but it’s designed to be a handheld console.

“Those who care about the freedom PC gaming affords” surely aren’t in the market for a pre-built machine whose main attractiveness will be convenience and support, either. I play PC games because it’s what I grew up playing, where I’m most comfortable, and it gives me better access to a wide variety of games at good prices than console games do. I can play in higher fidelity than an equivalent-generation console, and I can play games which are poorly suited to controllers (ironically: like Call of Duty. Which I haven’t played since Black Ops 4, but I have played other games with restrictive anti-cheat) For me, it’s not about some abstract concept of freedom at all. I also use Linux for everything except gaming for concrete reasons.

Saying the Steam Machine sucks because of this is idiotic. But saying it will limit its reach, or is a reason to not buy it, or whatever, is totally legit. My PC plays as broad a gamut of games as possible, and while I’ll look into it, I’ll take a lot of convincing to potentially have to put up with the Linux desktop issues I put up with routinely on my main (non-gaming) computer. Not being able to play my friends’ flavour of the month would be a big red flag.

Just don’t turn it on?

OK, I don’t think that is realistic.

Are you suggesting people might think you really said what was in the joke quote, and that you edited your comment into something else?

Yes if only there were some way of detecting whether the quote was accurate or not 🙄

it’s not a pain

Here’s the dozen lines of config I had to write and tweak and debug to make it tolerable

Uh huh. You do you.

People who like multi window gimp must be a very special kind of nerd. I used it before single window mode was added, but when it was I never looked back. Positioning each subwindow in a way that didn’t suck was such an absolute pain

Do the other effects for switching desktops, like the default slide, not accomplish the same thing? I also find that having no animation makes it harder to keep track of where things are, but just have the sliding one

Weirdly this happens on my work laptop (x11) but not any other Linux machine I’ve used including all the Wayland ones. I assume it’s due to video drivers.

😭

What if my favourite are Gentoo’s but I don’t want to spend years of my life waiting for my OS to compile from source?

That sounds like a level of detail it is not necessarily useful to go into with most people. I never experienced anyone non-technical complaining about cloud products, so it would just be proselytising about what to me is a hobby/passion project.

(Not that I’m big into self hosting, but to the extent I am)

You think people are only suggesting it in cases where it’s appropriate?

Understand that things aren’t perfect, and complaining is cathartic. You don’t need to fix everything that people complain about - if someone complains about their car, do you need a “solution”? I complain about my cat’s annoying behaviours all the time, but there’s no acceptable way to fix them.

It’s not a solution for most people.